CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2015-5330

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Published: Dec 29, 2015 | Modified: Nov 07, 2023
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
3.5 MODERATE
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

ldb before 1.1.24, as used in the AD LDAP server in Samba 4.x before 4.1.22, 4.2.x before 4.2.7, and 4.3.x before 4.3.3, mishandles string lengths, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from daemon heap memory by sending crafted packets and then reading (1) an error message or (2) a database value.

Weakness

The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Samba Samba 4.0.0 (including) 4.0.0 (including)
Samba Samba 4.0.1 (including) 4.0.1 (including)
Samba Samba 4.0.2 (including) 4.0.2 (including)
Samba Samba 4.0.3 (including) 4.0.3 (including)
Samba Samba 4.0.4 (including) 4.0.4 (including)
Samba Samba 4.0.5 (including) 4.0.5 (including)
Samba Samba 4.0.6 (including) 4.0.6 (including)
Samba Samba 4.0.7 (including) 4.0.7 (including)
Samba Samba 4.0.8 (including) 4.0.8 (including)
Samba Samba 4.0.9 (including) 4.0.9 (including)
Samba Samba 4.0.10 (including) 4.0.10 (including)
Samba Samba 4.0.11 (including) 4.0.11 (including)
Samba Samba 4.0.12 (including) 4.0.12 (including)
Samba Samba 4.0.13 (including) 4.0.13 (including)
Samba Samba 4.0.14 (including) 4.0.14 (including)
Samba Samba 4.0.15 (including) 4.0.15 (including)
Samba Samba 4.0.16 (including) 4.0.16 (including)
Samba Samba 4.0.17 (including) 4.0.17 (including)
Samba Samba 4.0.18 (including) 4.0.18 (including)
Samba Samba 4.0.19 (including) 4.0.19 (including)
Samba Samba 4.0.20 (including) 4.0.20 (including)
Samba Samba 4.0.21 (including) 4.0.21 (including)
Samba Samba 4.0.22 (including) 4.0.22 (including)
Samba Samba 4.0.23 (including) 4.0.23 (including)
Samba Samba 4.0.24 (including) 4.0.24 (including)
Samba Samba 4.1.0 (including) 4.1.0 (including)
Samba Samba 4.1.1 (including) 4.1.1 (including)
Samba Samba 4.1.2 (including) 4.1.2 (including)
Samba Samba 4.1.3 (including) 4.1.3 (including)
Samba Samba 4.1.4 (including) 4.1.4 (including)
Samba Samba 4.1.5 (including) 4.1.5 (including)
Samba Samba 4.1.6 (including) 4.1.6 (including)
Samba Samba 4.1.7 (including) 4.1.7 (including)
Samba Samba 4.1.8 (including) 4.1.8 (including)
Samba Samba 4.1.9 (including) 4.1.9 (including)
Samba Samba 4.1.10 (including) 4.1.10 (including)
Samba Samba 4.1.11 (including) 4.1.11 (including)
Samba Samba 4.1.12 (including) 4.1.12 (including)
Samba Samba 4.1.13 (including) 4.1.13 (including)
Samba Samba 4.1.14 (including) 4.1.14 (including)
Samba Samba 4.1.15 (including) 4.1.15 (including)
Samba Samba 4.1.16 (including) 4.1.16 (including)
Samba Samba 4.1.17 (including) 4.1.17 (including)
Samba Samba 4.1.18 (including) 4.1.18 (including)
Samba Samba 4.1.19 (including) 4.1.19 (including)
Samba Samba 4.1.20 (including) 4.1.20 (including)
Samba Samba 4.1.21 (including) 4.1.21 (including)
Samba Samba 4.2.0 (including) 4.2.0 (including)
Samba Samba 4.2.1 (including) 4.2.1 (including)
Samba Samba 4.2.2 (including) 4.2.2 (including)
Samba Samba 4.2.3 (including) 4.2.3 (including)
Samba Samba 4.2.4 (including) 4.2.4 (including)
Samba Samba 4.2.5 (including) 4.2.5 (including)
Samba Samba 4.2.6 (including) 4.2.6 (including)
Samba Samba 4.3.0 (including) 4.3.0 (including)
Samba Samba 4.3.1 (including) 4.3.1 (including)
Samba Samba 4.3.2 (including) 4.3.2 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 RedHat libldb-0:1.1.13-3.el6_7.1 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 RedHat samba4-0:4.0.0-67.el6_7.rc4 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat samba-0:4.2.3-11.el7_2 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat libldb-0:1.1.20-1.el7_2.2 *
Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 6 RedHat samba-0:4.1.17-16.el6rhs *
Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 6 RedHat libldb-0:1.1.20-3.el6rhs *
Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 7 RedHat libldb-0:1.1.20-3.el7rhgs *
Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 7 RedHat samba-0:4.2.4-9.1.el7rhgs *
Ldb Ubuntu devel *
Ldb Ubuntu precise *
Ldb Ubuntu trusty *
Ldb Ubuntu vivid *
Ldb Ubuntu wily *
Ldb Ubuntu xenial *
Ldb Ubuntu yakkety *
Ldb Ubuntu zesty *
Samba Ubuntu devel *
Samba Ubuntu precise *
Samba Ubuntu trusty *
Samba Ubuntu upstream *
Samba Ubuntu vivid *
Samba Ubuntu wily *
Samba Ubuntu xenial *
Samba Ubuntu yakkety *
Samba Ubuntu zesty *
Samba4 Ubuntu precise *
Samba4 Ubuntu upstream *

Extended Description

There are many different kinds of mistakes that introduce information exposures. The severity of the error can range widely, depending on the context in which the product operates, the type of sensitive information that is revealed, and the benefits it may provide to an attacker. Some kinds of sensitive information include:

Information might be sensitive to different parties, each of which may have their own expectations for whether the information should be protected. These parties include:

Information exposures can occur in different ways:

It is common practice to describe any loss of confidentiality as an “information exposure,” but this can lead to overuse of CWE-200 in CWE mapping. From the CWE perspective, loss of confidentiality is a technical impact that can arise from dozens of different weaknesses, such as insecure file permissions or out-of-bounds read. CWE-200 and its lower-level descendants are intended to cover the mistakes that occur in behaviors that explicitly manage, store, transfer, or cleanse sensitive information.

Potential Mitigations

  • Compartmentalize the system to have “safe” areas where trust boundaries can be unambiguously drawn. Do not allow sensitive data to go outside of the trust boundary and always be careful when interfacing with a compartment outside of the safe area.
  • Ensure that appropriate compartmentalization is built into the system design, and the compartmentalization allows for and reinforces privilege separation functionality. Architects and designers should rely on the principle of least privilege to decide the appropriate time to use privileges and the time to drop privileges.

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